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Key-Glyph, Soul Searcher
Name:	Key-Glyph
Species:	Traveller
Pronouns:	She/Her
Primary Guild:	Explorers Guild
Facet:	Atlas Facet
Facet Title:	Soul Searcher
Status:	Lost

Revision as of 00:13, 20 May 2019

Key-Glyph, also known as the Lost Traveller, was a solitary and introspective explorer. Initially content to build a modest life on her home planet of Pabackyermi, She became increasingly absorbed with the cryptic messages and clues She found scattered about the galaxy. Key-Glyph thoroughly investigated Her corner of the universe and felt She had finally come to understand it, as well as Her purpose within it, shortly before She disappeared.

Biography

Key-Glyph regains consciousness.

Initially believed to be suffering from amnesia after a traumatic crash landing, Key-Glyph set off on a quest to uncover Her identity and reclaim Her life.

Beginning Her journey on Pabackyermi in the Monvervi system, Key-Glyph quickly adopted the planet as Her permanent home, building a small base and populating it with helpful recruits. She frequently returned to Pabackyermi during her adventures to regroup and recharge, either by sharing conservation with Her favorite colleagues or by wandering the arctic landscape on foot.

Key-Glyph's emotional and mental health fluctuated greatly during Her journey. Increasingly consumed with the need to understand the nature of Her existence and devastated by the loss of Her close friend Echo Analyst Entity Voanni, She threw Herself into scenarios She never would have otherwise. The effect of these situations on Her worldview and disposition are clearly seen in Her personal logs, including an episode of nihilistic depression during which She contemplated Her own death.

In the end, She followed the Atlas Path to completion and achieved a sense of bittersweet peace.

Key-Glyph disappeared shortly thereafter following a galaxy-wide reality shift. Her extensive personal logs and possessions were left to the Beacon-Entity without explanation, raising questions as to whether She was displaced to another reality or erased entirely.

Personality

Key-Glyph's favorite fauna on her home planet of Pabackyermi.

Key-Glyph was an introverted and fairly serious Traveller with great respect for the natural world around Her. She was regularly awed by planetary landscapes and views, particularly those with prominent celestial bodies in their skies. She rarely killed fauna and completely eschewed the use of exocrafts due to their destructive capacities.

Unusually sentimental for a Traveller, Key-Glyph settled on Her first planet and considered it Her home. She refused to trade Her original starship for the majority of Her journey due to its pivotal role in Her early survival. After acquiring a freighter, She kept it permanently parked in Her home planet's orbit. She often revisited worlds to spend time with Her favorite creatures, and even incorporated meaningful symbolism into Her multitool trades.

Key-Glyph resonated emotionally with her surroundings as well as other living beings. She was protective of those close to Her and deeply affected by the deaths of friends.

Aside from investigating the truth of Her existence, Key-Glyph's other notable interests included pursuing fluency in the Gek language and exploring all the star systems within two starlengths of Monervi. She also became a collector of exotic starships and acquired four different models before Her disappearance.

Relationships

Key-Glyph had several close friendships, most notably with Echo Analyst Entity Voanni and Gek Underling Aoss. Her most contentious relationship was with Gek Navigator Sofarhei.

Base Hirelings

Gek Navigator Sofarhei: Sofarhei was the first Gek Key-Glyph met, and later became Her Base Overseer. Their relationship degraded as Sofarhei became more and more hostile.
Echo Analyst Entity Voanni: Key-Glyph was very close with Voanni, a Korvax whose enthusiasm was a source of great comfort. Key-Glyph was devastated by Voanni's erasure.
Gek Underling Aoss: Aoss escaped Gek society to become a farmer at Key-Glyph's base, and both friends acted as a gentle stabilizing force in the other's uncertain life.

Anomalous Entities

Priest Entity Nada: Key-Glyph was immediately taken with Nada's compassion and endearing awkwardness. The full depth of Her feelings was kept vague.
Specialist Polo: Key-Glyph saw Polo as as a kindred spirit in openness, gratitude, and wonder. Polo was quite possibly Her greatest friend in the universe.

Other Travellers

Artemis: Key-Glyph did everything She could to save Artemis, but ultimately chose to end their suffering.
Apollo: Despite a terrible first impression, Apollo became Key-Glyph's most trusted fellow-Traveller. They parted in the hopes of meeting again.
BMF001: When a subspace message intended for Artemis reached Key-Glyph instead, the resulting friendship with BMF001 supported Key-Glyph through Her darkest moments.

Relation to the Atlas

Key-Glyph's relation to the Atlas was contentious. Although She accepted its claims as creator, She rejected its demands for fealty and devotion. She believed that the Atlas had attempted to threaten her into subservience and did not find its behaviors worthy of respect.

She grew confused over what may have been a dissociative identity disorder of the Atlas, which She interpreted as two separate Atlases altogether: one responsible for all worlds, the other responsible for Her world specifically. She speculated that the benign personality governed only Her own reality and was too young to be significantly self-aware. By contrast, the antagonistic personality seemed to experience the full scope of its existence and actively contemplate its fate.

Key-Glyph pursued the Atlas Path from a desire to understand the entity and its connection to Her existence. After completing the Path, She and the Atlas achieved a mutual, reserved forgiveness.

Photo Gallery

Very few images of Key-Glyph exist. If more are found, they will be added below.

Photo recovered from a space station.
A sketch from Key-Glyph's journals.
A sketch from Key-Glyph's journals.

Assets

Multitools

Name	Type	Class	Status	Description
Experiment C6/4	Pistol	C	Traded	The multitool present in Key-Glyph's pack at the start of Her journey.
Casting of Goghosukil	Rifle	B	Traded	There is no record of where this multitool was found, but it remained Key-Glyph's favorite, even after it was traded away.
Obscured Puellaro	Rifle	B	Traded	Found in a Vy'keen system, Key-Glyph reluctantly exchanged the Goghosukil for the Puellaro's improved technology slots.
Tikaryaza-Sung B500	Rifle	B	Owned	The Tikaryaza was found on Nada and Polo's anomaly. In addition to an extra technology slot, it mimicked the color scheme and markings of the Goghosukil. The trade was an easy decision.

Ships

Name	Type	Class	Status	Description
Yakomaku S79	Fighter	C	Traded	Key-Glyph regained consciousness in the Yakomaku S79 cockpit at the start of Her journey. This ship was Her lifeboat amidst the frozen temperatures of Pabackyermi, which most certainly would have killed Her otherwise. Key-Glyph was committed to keeping the Yakomaku forever, but agreed to have it upgraded when Her interstellar safety required tougher shielding and more powerful weaponry. Later, She would trade it entirely. She never stopped missing its original model, and longed for a way to reclaim it.
Yakomaku S79 Upgraded	Fighter	?	Traded	Key-Glyph encountered a Gek aboard a space station with a ship very similar to the Yakomaku and asked if they would upgrade Her systems to match. They agreed. The result was a strengthened ship, but Key-Glyph realized too late that the Gek had stolen Her Torpedo Launcher in the process. It took some time to adjust to secondary weaponry, but She managed.
Aguchoru S41	Exotic	S	Owned	Key-Glyph had never seen anything like the Aguchoru when it landed at a trading post in the Datakl system. She was not taken with its design until She realized it resembled a squid creature when in flight. She felt some guilt in letting go of the upgraded Yakomaku, but at this point in Her journey She had become more accepting of drastic change. This newfound flexibility, combined with Her unsureness over whether She would encounter something like the Aguchoru again, sealed the trade.
Yatsuruma S20	Exotic	S	Owned	The Yatsuruma is a ship Key-Glyph collected after securing a freighter with a shuttle bay. It was rarely flown.
Saymagar S37	Exotic	S	Owned	The Saymagar is a ship Key-Glyph collected after securing a freighter with a shuttle bay. It was rarely flown.
Reyagahag S80	Exotic	S	Owned	The Reyagahag is a ship Key-Glyph collected after securing a freighter with a shuttle bay. It was rarely flown.
Obamizawan S86	Fighter	A	Owned	The Obamizawan is a ship Key-Glyph collected after securing a freighter with a shuttle bay. Unusual in that it was not an exotic ship like the rest of Her extra spacecraft, Her reasons for acquiring it are unknown. This ship later became the primary spacecraft of the Beacon-Entity.

Bases

Base	Name	Planet	System	Details and History
	Adwilak Base	Pabackyermi	Monervi	Key-Glyph discovered Adwilak while roaming Her home planet on foot. Its prefab hub was located only a short flight away from Her initial crash site. Adwilak had a very basic design comprised of interconnected cylindrical structures. The Overseer was stationed in the central cylinder, with all other hirelings in connected rooms. Glass was heavily featured in its construction, its hallways and rooms prominently lined with windows. Decorations were sparse, but practical.

Freighters

Freighter	Name	Type	Class	Status	Details and History
	Gifundex	Galleon	N/A	Owned	Captain: Bisplag The purchase of Gifundex was a major accomplishment for Key-Glyph, who had spent a significant amount of time saving up the required minimum of 9 million units. It was used as an orbiting hangar for ships and extra goods; it is unconfirmed whether Key-Glyph ever fired the freighter's engines for space travel before She disappeared.

Frigates

Key-Glyph had no known frigates at the time of Her disappearance.

Other Equipment

Heart of the Sun
Atlas Pass v1
Atlas Pass v2
Atlas Pass v3

Research

Key-Glyph's initial research interest was planetary discovery, but over time it changed to a decisive focus on the Atlas.

She was fascinated by language and actively sought fluency in Gek. It appears that after gaining hyperdrive abilities, She focused mostly on Gek systems; her interest in their language may have been the reason.

Personal Logs

Survival Log 00

Guild Affiliations

The majority of Key-Glyph's commissions were done in service to the Explorers Guild.

She was also known to accept Mercenaries Guild missions related to curtailing pirate threats.

Atlas Keepers Affiliation

Key-Glyph's life and disappearance were the direct inspiration for the Atlas Keepers. She has been posthumously honored with a Facet and Facet Title.

Discoveries

Systems & Planets

Key-Glyph's Starchart

Other Discoveries

Kayamegur System: A star system Key-Glyph believed She created.

Important Events

Birth of the Beacon Child: Key-Glyph built and placed Echo Analyst Entity Voanni's beacon on Pabackyermi, leading to the birth of the Beacon Child.

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 === Relation to the Atlas ===
-Key-Glyph's relation to the '''Atlas''' was contentious.  Although She accepted its claims as creator, She rejected its demands for fealty and devotion.  She believed that the Atlas had attempted to threaten her into subservience, and did not find its behaviors worthy of respect.
+Key-Glyph's relation to the '''Atlas''' was contentious.  Although She accepted its claims as creator, She rejected its demands for fealty and devotion.  She believed that the Atlas had attempted to threaten her into subservience and did not find its behaviors worthy of respect.
 She grew confused over what may have been a dissociative identity disorder of the Atlas, which She interpreted as two separate Atlases altogether:  one responsible for all worlds, the other responsible for Her world specifically.  She speculated that the benign personality governed only Her own reality and was too young to be significantly self-aware.  By contrast, the antagonistic personality seemed to experience the full scope of its existence and actively contemplate its fate.